Promoting Your New Article or Book

• How to Promote Your Published Work: APSA interviewed three marketing and PR professionals about how members should get the word out about their new book or article. 

Working with Media

• Media Interview Tips: A guide from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Dealing With the Press: Inside Higher Ed piece (November 5, 2014) by academic and journalist Rob Weir aimed at helping academics engage with journalists.

Writing and Pitching Op-Eds

• Know the Basics: Op-Eds, Blogs and Pitches. APSA’s overview of the drafting and pitching process, and a list of platforms that welcome pitches and submissions from political scientists. 
• The OpEd Project Resources: Web pages on structuring, writing, pitching, and submitting op-eds. 
• Tips for Scholars Writing an Op-Ed Written by journalist Michael Todd for SAGE Connection, contains information on the mechanics, structure, and strategies connected to drafting op-eds.

Communicating with Policymakers

• Working With Your Government Relations Office: APSA’s guide to getting the most out of your government relations office to share your research with policymakers or advocate on behalf of the profession. 

Using Social Media

• How to Create a Personal Academic Website: An APSA Guide
• Academic Blogging: 10 Top Tips: Article by Tom Crick and Alan Winfield in The Guardian (December 13, 2013).
• So You Want to Blog (Academic Edition): Hints from Liana Silva in Inside Higher Ed (May 12, 2013).
• Twitter for Academics: An Introduction: Online guide by Katherine Linzy of the University of Evansville that walks Twitter newcomers through the nuts and bolts of Tweeting.

Public Speaking

• Public Speaking for Academics – 10 Tips: Experts’ tips in the Guardian for calming nerves and communicating clearly.

Articles on Public Engagement

• APSA Task Force Report “Let’s Be Heard! How to Better Communicate Political Science’s Public Value”: Addresses how “individual scholars and professional organizations can make political science’s insights and discoveries more accessible, more relevant, and more valuable to more people.”
• How the Monkey Cage Went Ape: Discusses growing support within academia for public engagement activities and cites several political scientists.
• Scientists’ Views about Communication Training: Article by Besley, J. C., Dudo, A., & Storksdieck, M. (2015) in Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 52, 199-220. Article “assesses how scientists think about science communication training” and argues that “such training represents an important tool in improving the quality of interactions between scientists and the public.